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rampage

[ram-payj, ram-payj, ram-payj] / ˈræm peɪdʒ, ræmˈpeɪdʒ, ˈræm peɪdʒ /


VERB
go crazy; storm
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
be calm


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Since the Thursday rampage, Sherry Lauer, 56, has been watching her five-year-old granddaughter for signs of how she is processing the tragedy.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

The police spokeswoman added the force believe the incident to be a "rampage".

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

You would have an executive that was just on a rampage, with no one willing to stand up.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

Dickson survived the November rampage, concealing himself under a pile of baskets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

But then I'd apparently broken out of the hospital in a rabid rampage, and every student with a cough or runny nose was now a suspected plague carrier and being rushed to the doctor.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Eggs: So, that whole thing about the U.S. trying to import more eggs as bird flu rampages across American livestock centers?

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025

Yamazaki refers to Toho Studios’ original method of filming Godzilla rampages in 1954.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

Yet the theme persists, from the singular destructiveness of the kaiju to the way that people onscreen watch their rampages through televisions and the Internet, observers of the existential changes upending the world.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023

Responding to an opposition question in parliament, Gallant condemned the rampages as "a dangerous social phenomenon that we must fight."

From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2023

One afternoon, I was on one of these getaway rampages, racing down the small side roads that spiderweb our property.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Since then, Nigeria has allowed hundreds of American troops to be posted to the country to train Nigerian forces and coordinate targeting of militant groups that have rampaged through the Lake Chad Basin for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Meryl Streep took matters into her own hands — literally — as wildfires rampaged across Los Angeles County earlier this month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

For 40 minutes, he rampaged in a manner that would have been signed off by great Welsh number eights such as Mervyn Davies, Scott Quinnell and Taulupe Faletau.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024

By Sunday, Palworld was one of the most popular games on the planet as players rampaged through a cruel world of chickens and squirrels engaged in shootouts.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024

Cholera rampaged through big cities and small towns.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

A Saxon farmer cocks his head as the rampaging Normans approach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

If he survives the rampaging zombies, there’s a major life change on the horizon: His girlfriend has recently told him she is pregnant, and he’s skeptical about the potential of fatherhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Gibson-Park darted through the gold shirts to score after Keenan produced a superb try-saving tackle to deny the rampaging Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii a certain try.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

It was one of several fires rampaging through Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

“And as for you, my dear niece,” he continued, hugging Kelly to his side, “I do believe a rampaging rhinoceros would be shyer than you are.”

From "George" by Alex Gino


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